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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
6
An advertisement lists a poultry sale by DAVID HYLAND & SONS Exporters of Melbourne. It invites sellers to contact Hylands for terms and mentions a forthcoming export sale in the area. No detailed lot numbers or dates are provided in the readable text.
Readable fragments show a local notice style item with names and numbers scattered. The text mentions people and places in a damaged sequence, suggesting a short public or legal notice with partial dates and actions. The readable parts hint at a community record or brief classified notice.
The article surveys British makers excelling in optics for warfare, detailing prisms, rangefinders, periscopes, and binoculars vital to artillery and submarines. It highlights British industry surpassing German supply, with labs in Ireland and England producing essential sighting instruments and the corner cube prism aiding sea vessels.
The article details the Dodge Brothers origin and Detroit plant output before 1914, noting daily production scales for rear axles, gears, and crankshafts. It covers plant expansion in 1914, staffing to about 9100, and December 1914 deliveries of their own car with early production reaching 190 daily, rising to 250 by mid-1915, plus technical specs of the new model.
An advertisement touts Formettes as pleasant herbal tablets to be taken before meals that allegedly reduce fat and erase corpulency without exercise. It claims users will look years younger and suffer no palpitations or indigestion, selling at 5/8 per carton from 8. H. Hen shall, Chemist.
The Dodge Brothers car price in Australia stands at £825. The Canad Cycle and Motor Co (Victoria) Pty Ltd, located at 394 La Trobe Street Melbourne, is the sole representative for Victoria.
A fragmented report recalls a Maori meeting in New Zealand where references to culture and German influence surface amid wartime rhetoric. It notes Maori figures of the New Zealand Parliament and mentions travel, military provisioning, and disputed acts, all described through muddled phrasing.
An extended notice praises Sands and McMougall's Victoria directory as an essential office and private dwelling tool. It chronicles its growth to 3063 pages, detailing streets, counties, trades, government pardons, and ads, noting a rise to 366 pages before competition in cheap sheets caused a decline.
An old country farmer, burned barn insured above its value, sees insurers replace the barn. A travelling life insurance agent jokes about his wife dying and the farmer rejects further policies. The tale ends with a quip on love and folly, noting how spouses influence costly habits.
Letters from H Jewell and Mary Black describe kidney and general health recoveries after using Warner's Safe Cure. Jewell endured severe pain and weakness from a rock fall injury and laborious sewer work, then recovered after seven bottles. Black, after years of kidney trouble, reports relief and cure following the remedy.
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